Google Chrome graduates to beta on Linux and Mac

At first the Linux and Mac builds were barely usable with no plug-in or printing support and frequent crashes. In my own personal experience on Linux, Chrome-dev has become very stable and has been for months.

For those of us that have been growing along with the dev-channel releases, the beta release is nothing new. What the beta signifies is a maturation of the tech to a level that Windows users have enjoyed for a year.

For Chrome, Beta means it's (almost) ready for prime time users, but not quite ready for absolutely everyone. Google has a three tier dev process for Chrome with a stable, beta and dev channel. The dev-channel is the fastest moving (and quickest to break) and it's the one that I'll be sticking with and I suspect many Linux users, that are used to rapid updates, will too.

Mac users are often a bit different than typical Linux users (though there is also some overlap).